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Do I need to register with the tax department of every state in which I have employees?
In my startup, we have employees (paid hourly) from New Jersey and California. The startup itself is based in New York. We're doing our payroll through Intuit, and the application is telling me I ...
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Do I need to incorporate in the US to run events?
I'm from Germany and want to run small events (around 50 participants) in the United States, which involve the sale of tickets (probably online) and payment to contractors which contribute to the ...
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Can I do volunteer work for Non profit Organization while on H1B for other company?
I am currently on H1B visa, I want to do some volunteer work for a non profit organization on my free time and weekends, helping with some web development. I will not get any monetary benefits from ...
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Health Insurance Options
We're a small business (still a good start-up feel, but pretty solid) and I'm curious as to what our health insurance options are? Currently I'd want to insure myself and my other full time employee. ...
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Do I have any U.S. Business Activities?
In Apple's iTunes Connect, under Manage Your Tax Information, there is this question:
Do you have any U.S. Business Activities?
In general, you have U.S. Business Activities if you have ...
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Legally advertising for cash investors
I'm a private real estate investor (not a company) looking to advertise for an investor/partner for startup capital. I'm looking for someone to be a cash investor/partner with me in acquiring single ...
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How to set up an LLC company in USA and a bank account for operating the LLC [duplicate]
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How to register LLC in USA or LTD in UK and bank account, for foreigner?
Please help me out to form an LLC company in USA along with a bank account to operate it. I am ...
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US Citizen Being a Member of a UK LLP?
Suppose a US citizen becomes a member of a UK LLP, along with 2 other foreigners (non-US citizens). Assume each one of the three has a 33.3% share in the UK LLP.
The LLP starts working, and has a ...
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Vendor's License E-commerce site
I am creating an ecommerce site that sells products all across the country. I am based in Ohio and so is the company. I want to know what vendor's licenses that I need to acquire to start selling ...
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Contract jurisdiction venue
I'm in the process of closing a somewhat sizable deal with a new client, and the only sticking point with the contract is the choice of jurisdiction.
I am located in state A, the client in state B. ...
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Starting up a company in the U.S. and Canada?
I am a U.S. citizen working in Canada on a work visa. A small team and I have been working on a startup in our free time up here in the great north, so we're primarily based out of Canada. However, ...
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Does a UK company pay tax in the USA?
I was looking at a previous question on the subject and it mentioned a form 1120-F for foreign corporations.
Does this mean that foreign corporations who do business in the USA must pay US taxes?
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Filing US income taxes for income from working from home for Bahamas-based company
I am a salesman for a Bahamas based domain name registrar and hosting company.
I work out of NY from my home and am a US citizen.
How do I report my income to the IRS?
The company I work for does ...
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Are you taxed on revenue or income?
As a single owner of an LLC, are you required to pay taxes on the LLC's profit or revenue?
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Starting a business from the UK as self employed, with an eventual goal to employ US Citizens and move to the US to work - possible?
I'm currently working on building an online business based around travel and tourism and eventually I'll need to employ people in the US, located in a specific area. The end goal is that I'll be able ...
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Duties & Taxes involved in importing into the US
We are a UK private limited company who export from India direct to our customers in the UK, we are now looking to export from India into the US.
My question is regarding the import duties and taxes ...
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Ethicality of hiring a former student?
Background: I'm both administrative staff for a university, and I'm the owner of a small business. I've been working with a particular student at the university on some university grant work, and ...
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Why are most successful web startup from the US? What are the factors?
I'm currently based in singapore.
I have noticed that most startup, especially those that grow into super successful giants are mostly from US: facebook, groupon, linkedin. Or maybe because I'm not ...
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Suggest best way to process payments?
We are from NJ. Our start up consists of 2 people. Previously, all of our clients were through our contacts, so we just accepted cheques for payment and deposited them in our Bank of America small ...
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Three-person startup not sure which state to incorporate in
Currently forming a three-person startup; our members live in Tampa, Florida & Hayward, California & Arlington, Virginia.
It will be a politics-based web game, and we are reasonably sure ...
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We are an LLC from NJ, can we hire this guy from Canada, who is a temporary resident?
We are a small software based start up in NJ, we recently got a couple of projects from Canada and we're loving them.
We came across this guy in Canada, he is very talented and we think he will be ...
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Can a company outside the US gain accreditation by the US Better Business Bureau?
We run an e-commerce business which has many suppliers in the US and many clients there. For this reason we would like to gain accreditation with the BBB. Is this possible unless we have a physical ...
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Separate bank accounts?
If you are a simple sole proprietor with a DBA, do you need (by law) to have a separate bank account?
I know life is easier if you have a separate bank account, but I am wondering about the laws...
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I am a US citizen and want to become a partner in a friend's UK startup
I am a US citizen and want to become a partner in a friend's UK startup, helping her start a branch office in the US. What is the best way to proceed with this? What forms need to be filled out?
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Is LLC the best option?
We are planning to sell iPhone, iPad and Android apps in US Market. We have a company in India having 4 directors.
I think we will have to open up a company in USA for this. Do you guys think, ...
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Why are most of the well known startups originated from USA?
I'm not trying to throw a flamebait, but on the other hand I want to learn from the success.
Why is the ecosystem to build a startup seems to be so viable in USA? How did it all started? I know this ...
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Collecting Use taxes
An article on businessweek got my attention today. From the headline:
A Texas software vendor we have
purchased from for years got audited
by the California State Board of
Equalization ...
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Rental Property LLC tax deduction advice
If I form an LLC and my new company buys a duplex rental unit, my understanding is the 'company' taxes will be a pass-through to my personal 1040 income tax forms, with the appropriate forms.
I ...
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Legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required for prize based promotions
I'd like to run a prize based promotion in the USA -- and looking for suggestions on legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required to execute one.
Yes, I know there are lots of ...
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How to get nonimmigrant Visa to the US for an unemployed startup founder
I'm the co-founder of a startup in India and I'm considering applying to seed-funding programs in USA like ycombinator. My problem is how do I get a non-immigrant visa to the US? I am currently ...
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Can I exercise stock options in a privately-held startup?
My options (ISO's) in a privately-held (VC-funded) startup are slowly but surely vesting. Can I exercise the vested options? What does it mean to exercise options in a privately-held company? If ...
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What IRS forms do I need filled out by a third party whom I have contracted to do development work for m
I have a small company and am having another US based LLC (really just a single guy) do a fairly significant amount of work for me. Do I need a W9 filled out from him?
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Canadian company with US clients
Say I want to start a company based in Canada where I'm a resident and citizen. At first my company gets clients in Canada.
But then I get clients in the USA (by going over there and meeting with ...
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steps/tips to create an online company
A friend of mine and I are planning to start a new company in the US. He and I are full time employees on different companies, but we are planning to invest out of work hours/weekends to start our new ...
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Is it mandatory to get a small-online-startup-business registered in USA?
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Its gonna be a one man show.
The person running the business already has a dayjob elsewhere. I guess he's a waiter and I am not sure if he has an EIN.
He would like to avoid registrations ...
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Using US Based SaaS as a European company?
As EU companies are aware, the personal data protection law doesn't allow EU companies to store data in servers located outside of the EU. The only way to do this is for the provider to join the Safe ...
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How will Healthcare Reform Impact Small Businesses?
So it looks inevitable now…the healthcare bill will probably be passed tonight. Without getting into the politics of it, how will this impact small businesses? How will this impact your company? Or ...
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How to hire a salesman?
Usually salesmen have a base pay and then commission on each sale. I want to know how a company handles this? I mean for example a salesman's basic pay is $1000 and commission ratio is 10% for each ...
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Tax implications for buying out my LLP partner?
I am buying out my co-founder of our 3 year old company that we started as a hobby/second job. We are profitable (although you definitely couldn't live off the profits alone!).
Anyway, we've ...
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Looking up US company details
I'm trying to find out a little bit of information about a US company before potentially doing some work for them.
If I wanted to find out about a company in the UK, I would search on the Companies ...
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Form a company outside of the US?
This is definitely a different flavor of a common question. Here are the basic stats:
Online only startup -- no physical presence.
Everyone works from home.
We have 8 people in 4 countries (5 in USA ...
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Would the startup visa be retroactive?
Would the startup visa, in its current state and if approved, be retroactive?
What I mean is, if someone gets enough founding today, would they be able to apply for the visa when it gets approved?
